吹雪する長等の山を見渡せば
尾上を越ゆる志賀の浦波
尾上を越ゆる志賀の浦波
- Roma-ji
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Fubuki suru Nagara no yama o miwataseba onoe o koyuru Shiga no uranami
- English Translation
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When I look across
at Mount Nagara where
the blizzard blows,
it is as if Shiga's waves
were breaking over the peak
- Meaning
- Looking out at Mount Nagara in the blizzard, it seems as if the waves of Shiga Bay were rolling over its summit.
- Commentary
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Book Six Winter Poems 461
Headnote: "Composed as a poem on snow when the Regent, then Minister of the Right, had a hundred-poem sequence composed"
Composed as a poem on snow when Kujō Kanezane, later Regent, had a hundred-poem sequence composed while he was Minister of the Right. Looking out at Mount Nagara in the blizzard, the poet says, it seems as if the waves of Shiga Bay were rolling over its summit. It is a grand conceit that likens the blizzard sweeping white over the mountain to the white waves of Lake Biwa at its foot surging up to the peak.
The author, "Fujiwara no Yoshikiyo," was a poet who took part in the hundred-poem sequence at Kujō Kanezane's house, but little is known of his life.
Poems on snow continue from 445 to 467.
First line, "fubuki suru": "fubuki" is snow driven by a fierce wind. 455 of this book also sings of a blizzard.
Second line, "Nagara no yama o": Mount Nagara in Ōmi Province, a poetic place on the western shore of Lake Biwa.
Third line, "miwataseba": "ba" gives a fixed condition, "when I look across."
Fourth line, "onoe o koyuru": "onoe" is the top of a mountain ridge. The blizzard crossing the peak is likened to waves crossing it.
Fifth line, "Shiga no uranami": the poem ends on a noun. Shiga Bay is the western shore of Lake Biwa at the foot of Mount Nagara, and the blizzard is likened to its white waves.
- Author
- Fujiwara no Yoshikiyo
- Source
- Senzai Wakashu
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